JOB SUMMARY

The successful candidate will be the part of a team building an innovative platform leveraging data, analytics to drive automated decision-making, smart automation across the full lifecycle of the business. 

•    Collaborate with business stakeholders and PO to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
•    Implement data models and schemas to support analytics, reporting, and machine learning initiatives.
•    Optimize data processing and storage solutions for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
•    Ensure data quality and integrity by implementing data validation, monitoring, and error handling mechanisms.
•    Collaborate with data analysts and data scientists to provide them with clean, reliable, and accessible data for analysis and modeling.
•    Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering and recommend innovative solutions to enhance our data capabilities.
•    Ensure our data processing changes go through maximum automation and regression tested, automated zero touch deployment and cause zero disruption to users.
•    Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance
•    Provide Production L3 support as required
•    Minimum 12+ years' experience as a data engineer or similar role.

•    Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB, Oracle), OLAP tools (eg. Clickhouse), vector stores (PGVector, FAISS, Chroma) and data modeling concepts.
•    Strong understanding of distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Storm); cloud-based data platforms a plus (e.g., AWS Redshift, Azure, Google BigQuery, Snowflake).
•    Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Apache Superset) and strong experience with data pipeline tools (e.g. Airflow, Kafka, NiFi, Airbyte) and metadata stores (Informatica)
•    Understanding of data and query optimization, query profiling, and query performance monitoring tools and techniques.
•    Solid understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data validation, and data security best practices.
•    Experience in version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
•    Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
•    Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
•    Demonstratable evidence of evaluating existing systems and proposing and deploying significant changes to improve the whole system

RESPONSIBILITIES

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CAT team. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Qualifications

•    Bsc/BTech/BE equivalent in Computer Science

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Database Engineering
•    ETL / Data Sourcing / Consumption / Processing
•    Data Processing tuning and optimisation
•    BI Dashboard tools selection/implementation
•    Testing Automation

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.